Sensory Motor Release (GP/Physio)

Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation of Disabled, Elderly and Multi-talented Performers (Rheumatologist)

Chronic Pain (Rheumatologist)

Ageing and Performance Q&A with Gabrielle Hamilton (actor), Fergus Early (dancer) and Catherine Butler Smith (musician)

Plus, performing arts medicine practitioners can learn from and with professional musicians in two practical sessions with violinist (and Alexander Technique teacher), Ron Colyer, and clarinettist, Andrew Roberts.

Click here to download the programme

Please note this event is now fully booked.

Attendees should come to the main reception of:

Franklin-Wilkins Building
Stamford Street
London
SE1 9NH

Venue information: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/campuses/waterloo.html

Dorothea offers free consultations and low fee lessons for performing artists who are BAPAM clients. To find out how to arrange this, register with us by calling the clinic on 020 7404 8444.

Enhance your Performance with Autogenic Training

. Learn to Cope with Stress & Relax

. Relieve Muscular & Emotional Tensions

. Reduce Performance Anxiety

. Enhance Concentration & Self Confidence

. Feel Positive & Energized

Autogenic Training Sessions and Courses

The autogenic sessions aim to give artists, professionals and students, the skills for enhancing their performance using their artistic craft in the most effective way.  AT helps to prevent and reduce performance anxiety and stress-related discomforts. It also enhances mental clarity, concentration and self-confidence.

The course consists of learning and practicing the autogenic standard exercises which allow the release of physical and emotional tension. By stimulating the body’s self-regulatory system AT fosters a progressive muscular and mental relaxation and supports the healthy functioning of the body’s systems, such as the circulatory, respiratory, gastrointestinal and metabolic.

The autogenic practice allows you to bring your body into a state of ‘awake’ relaxation whenever and wherever needed.  In this way your body becomes more energized and you can use physical and mental energy in the most effective way.

By the end of the course you will have developed a calmer attitude when dealing with the negative effects of stress; learned to feel more in control and present – relaxed but awake; as well as focused and energised before, during and after a performance. Individual or small group sessions are available.

Please, read more on AT at www.musarteandmore.com

With: Giovanna Reitano

Date:  Individual sessions are by appointment.

Small groups sessions: Evenings (Monday-Thursday) 5:30-6:30 or 6:30-7:30

AT Courses start the first week of each month and include 6 sessions (on weekly basis).

The cost for the 6 week AT course is of £ 140 (£ 110 for students).

Venue: BAPAM

To book an Autogenic Training session or a 6 week course with Giovanna please contact Clare at Bapam: clare@bapam.org.uk

Tel. 020 7404 8444 (Monday-Friday 9 am – 5pm)

At our clinics, BAPAM doctors give medical advice to many performers with musculoskeletal injuries (temporarily) preventing their ability to pursue their careers/education. In addition to the physical problem, there is a psychological impact. Being injured is stressful! AT is one way of reducing the stress and tension which can exacerbate the effects of physical injury.

AT can be particularly useful for all forms of anxiety, including performance anxiety (stage fright), and panic attacks. The relaxed state induced by autogenic exercises restores regular heartbeats, normal breathing patterns, and increases concentration clarity and alertness. People report feeling more confident and energised.

Tammy Mindell, an Autogenic Therapist listed on BAPAM’s directory of practitioners, says, ‘a semi-professional singer learnt AT for other stress related issues. As an unexpected bonus, she found her singing greatly improved. She became less anxious about good performance, allowing herself to be good enough. The results meant that rather than over breathing and pushing the sound, I could relax and allow and enjoy a much easier and better quality performance’.

In some cases, advanced autogenic techniques may be used as a form of psychotherapy.

Useful links:

The British Autogenic Society is the professional and regulatory body for Autogenic Therapists in the UK. Their web site contains a wealth of further information about autogenic training.

Autogenic Therapists on the BAPAM Directory of Practitioners:

Tammy Mindel: www.autogenictraininglondon.co.uk
Giovanna Reitano: www.musarteandmore.com
Catalina Botello: www.autogenic-therapy.net

If you are worried about a medical problem, including anxiety or another psychological problem, you should consult your GP. If you are a performing artist and the problem is work-related you may also seek advice from a BAPAM GP at one of our free clinics.

Ian MacDonald is a singer and specialist voice coach for BAPAM.

VoiceSkills; an Ian MacDonald and Sef Hill collaboration.

See website for full details and how to book: www.voiceskills.org.uk

The Classical Voice

The Lady Chapel, St Peter’s Church, Kennington Lane SE11 5HY – 0790 4691850

10am – 5pm, Saturday, 18^th September 2010 – Booking NOW!

10am – 5pm, Saturday, 15^th January 2011

10am – 5pm, Saturday, 16^th April 2011

The Musical Theatre Voice

The Concert Artistes’ Association, 20 Bedford Street, London WC2E 9HP – 0790 469 1850

10am – 5pm, Sunday, 10^th October 2010 – Booking NOW!

10am – 5pm, Sunday, 23^rd January 2011

10am – 5pm, Sunday, 10^th April 2011

Introductory Workshop and Short Course

In Aid of UNICEF Pakistan Flood Children’s Appeal

£25 Minimum ~ Workshop Fees will be Donated & Added to by Gift Aid

Saturday 18 September ~ 2.0pm – 4.30pm

Small Group max 6 ~ so it is essential to enrol in advance

As the group is small, you will be able to experience some individual hands-on work with an experienced teacher.

• Experiential Games
• Demonstrations and Discussion
• Hands-on Work
• Refreshments Organic / Fairtrade

You will be asked to lie on the floor and to take your shoes off.  Please wear loose trousers and comfortable clothing without hoodies.

Reduced rate 1:1 Follow-up Lesson is available to participants

http://www.hilaryking.net/alexander-technique/workshops/

Short Introductory Course ~ £60

Linked to the UNICEF Workshop, which could also form the first session of this

4 week Introductory Course:

Saturdays (18), 25 September, 2, 9 October ~ 2.0 – 4.0pm

A separate fee is required for the extra 3 sessions, which are not part of the fund-raising.

Book Workshop & Course Together ~ £75

(£25 still goes to UNICEF)

This course offers you a cost-effective way to extend your learning of the Technique and is only available to participants of the UNICEF Workshop or a previous Intro Workshop.

Further Information and Booking: www.hilaryking.net

Book Workshop & Course Together ~ £75

(£25 still goes to UNICEF)

Want free advice on injury prevention and hearing protection from a world class musician?

Janet Horvath, the associate principal cello of the Minnesota Orchestra, author of  the book, Playing (Less) Hurt -An Injury Prevention Guide for Musicians, and long time member of the Performing Arts Medical Association, contacted BAPAM to tell us about her imminent Playing(Less)Hurt seminar.

The Minnesota Orchestra is performing at the Proms and while in London, Janet will be giving one of her seminars on injury prevention and hearing protection.

The workshop will take place at  the Westminster Reference Library of the Performing Arts on Friday August 27th, 2:00 to 4:00 pm, 35 St Martins St. London WC2H 7HP (Leicester Square Tube).
The seminar is pertinent to all instrumentalists in any genre and at any level, and the teachers and health professionals who work with them.

The talk is free and open to the public. For more information please see Janet Horvath’s website.

The Larkin Hedge School is a celebration of music, song and poetry run by the Clé Club, a traditional music and singing club based in the Cois Life Bar, Liberty Hall, Dublin.

Larkin Hedge School programme 2010

The sessions can help professional and student performers achieve the most from their performance, whilst causing the least damage. One to one Sessions will be held on a Saturday morning and include: Voice Coaching, Guitar Technique and Ergonomics, and Performance Bodywork.

BAPAM Saturday Sessions begin on 20^th February 2010 with Charlotte Tomlinson (Performance Bodywork):

Charlotte Tomlinson BA Hons (Music) GSMD, BSc Bodywork Therapies

www.performancebodywork.co.uk

Cost: £45

To book a session with Charlotte please call BAPAM on 020 7404 8444 Mon-Fri 9am – 5pm

About Charlotte:

Charlotte experienced the beginnings of tendonitis when she was a post-graduate student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. A whole year of lessons in the Alexander technique and many sessions with the legendary Jean Gibson, saved her from serious damage and woke her up to the importance of good body maintenance and healthy habits.  Alongside teaching and performing, she pursued her enthusiasm for bodywork taking courses in Yoga, Feldenkrais, Shiatsu, Ayurvedic massage as part of a BSc degree course at the University of Westminster, amongst others. Fifteen years of bodywork experience and over twenty years of piano teaching has given her the background knowledge and understanding of how to best help anyone, especially performing artists, look after themselves.

As a professional musician and teacher, Charlotte has taught piano at the Purcell School for eleven years, coached singers at the Academy for Performing Arts in Hong Kong, has been an official accompanist for the BBC Young Musician and the founder and director of Chamber Music International, a very successful annual summer course for chamber musicians and composers.

For Instrumentalists

It doesn’t matter what instrument you play, it is important to play with an efficient use of your body. An oboe player who has a tense left thumb holding the instrument can be encouraged to use only the muscles needed to perform that act, thereby letting go of tension that was blocking free playing. A bass player can discover that adjusting their stool by as little as an inch can free up their arms in a way that stops the nagging shoulder ache. It can be a small trigger which, when changed, can have such positive results.

For Pianists

As a pianist, you have the option of taking Performance Bodywork a natural step further. If you have a problem such as tendonitis, the sessions may develop into a form of ‘piano lesson’ so it is very important if you are a student that you ask your piano teachers permission. You would only need to play a piece at the beginning of the first session (there would be no emphasis on style and interpretation) and then the focus would go towards what is causing the problems and how to unlock those problems.

If you choose, you can have a series of sessions that will completely transform your technique, so that you learn to play with freedom and the piano starts to feel effortless and enjoyable. Charlotte’s approach to piano technique is very simple and is based on the principles of the Eastern Martial Arts, using power rather than force. She can see and hear within the first few minutes of seeing someone play where the main issues are – others can reveal themselves over time – and can help re-educate you in healthy piano playing habits.

For Singers

Your voice is a part of your body and you create your own instrument before you even start. The way you hold yourself physically and the way you think and feel has a direct impact on the sound you produce and how you are able to express yourself. The relationship between you and your voice can be a highly complex one and when problems arise they can sometimes be difficult to untangle. A simple adjustment of the way you hold your head can make a difference to your sound or it might be a case of going deeper and discovering how your thoughts and feelings are having an impact – the ‘inner game’ of performing.

Come with music that you are working on and be prepared to sing (and be accompanied at the piano!)

For Actors

With fear, nerves and anxiety you can carry an enormous amount of tension. Your stature can shorten and become restricted causing problems projecting physically. This affects both the voice and the body, and your overall presence on stage.

Performance Bodywork can help in a number of ways. You can be assessed both singing and speaking (singing can highlight hidden problems from a different perspective) and when acting the role you are currently working on.

Charlotte has worked with actors for the last twenty years, having spent much time working as a pianist and coach in music theatre and coaching actors through singing. She spent two years as a presenter for the classical music channel (RTHK) in Hong Kong and learned public speaking as a member of the Amsterdam Toastmasters Club. She has an innate understanding of how to use your voice in nerve filled situations both in front of the microphone and standing up in public.

For Dancers

Dancers speak through their body and their body needs to be finely tuned and in alignment in order to function efficiently and effectively. The pressures on professional dancers can take their toll physically, emotionally and psychologically.

Dancers are prone to injury because of the demands of the job. Performance Bodywork can help in the prevention of injuries by observing how the dancer operates away from the dance floor. It is easy to carry dancing habits into everyday life and this can cause problems. Learning good posture and alignment is essential and along with it, an ability to care for the body in the right way.

Please Note: BAPAM Saturday Sessions are not medical clinics. If you are concerned about a medical problem or injury affecting your performance you should make an appointment at either your own GP’s practice or a BAPAM clinic held by a doctor or physiotherapist.